India News | Maha: AIMIM to Protest from Saturday Against Aurangabad's Name Change
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Lok Sabha MP Imtiaz Jaleel said his party will start an agitation from Saturday against the renaming of Aurangabad as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Aurangabad, Mar 3 (PTI) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Lok Sabha MP Imtiaz Jaleel said his party will start an agitation from Saturday against the renaming of Aurangabad as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Marathwada's largest city and a major industrial hub was renamed after the second king of the Maratha Empire late February along with Osmanabad, which will be known as Dharashiv.
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Jaleel, who is the MP from Aurangabad, said his party had postponed the agitation in view of the Women20 meet, a programme that is part of the G20 presidency of India.
A relay hunger strike will be undertaken and it will commence at the district collector's office at 11 am on Saturday, Jaleel said in a press release.
He claimed the agitation "will not be of any political party but of the people of the city".
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